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Patented Mar. 5, 1895.

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COACH PAD.

Patented Mar. 5,1895.

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NOBLE TEAS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO MARIA J. FRANKS AND MARYH. TEAS.

COACH-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,180, dated March.5, 1895.

- Application filed December l7,1894. Serial No. 532,011. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NOBLE TEAS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,

5 have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Coach-Pads; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

is The objects of this invention are to reduce the cost of manufacturingcoach pads, and

to secure other advantages hereinafter referred to.

The invention consists in the improved coach pad, and in the arrangementand combination of the parts thereof and connected therewith, and alsoin the process of making certain of said parts, as herein set forth andfinally pointed out in the claims.

25 Referringto the accompanying drawings in which similar letters ofreference designate corresponding parts in each of the figures, wherethey occur, Figure 1 represents, in elevation and partly in section, acoach pad embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view ofthe same, enlarged, and partly broken the bottom being removed therefromto illustrate the nut boxes which are secured to the so-called socket ofthe coach pad. Fig. 3 shows a nut box providing for three nuts, while inFig. 4 a nut-box is shown adapted to hold only one nut. Fig. 5 is a planView of the lower of a pair of dies, and Fig. 6 is an inverted plan viewof the upper die. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal central vertical section ofthe two dies in operative position,

and showing also four pieces of leather which are formed therein into abottom for my improved coach pad, and Figs. 8, 9, 10 and 11,respectively, show said four pieces, in plan.

In said drawings, A, designates a bottom, which is pasted to theso-called socket B, of the coach pad, as shown in Fig. 1. In said bottomare cavities allowing the insertion of nut boxes B between the bottomand said socket, and the working of springs c, which are secured to saidnut boxes, the latter consisting of a plate d, of any desirable shape,

as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, ribs or flanges d extending longitudinallyupon said plate and 5 are integral therewith. Apertures e, are alsoprovided in said plate, between said flanges, 61, adapted to receive thetube end of nuts f, the other end of which is formed into an oblongplate, normally lying between said flanges d, which prevent said nutfrom turning in either direction, as shown in outline in Fig. 4.Springs, 0, riveted to the nut boxes at, by means of rivets 0', cast onthe latter hold said nuts in their proper place. This 6 constructionrenders it convenient to put the nuts in the nut boxes, tube side up,whereby the tube passes up through the metal box and leather socket,thus allowing the use of terrets m, and pad screws n, with shorter 7oshanks than heretofore when the nuts were reversed, as is the case inall ordinary constructions where no spring is used to hold the nuts inplace. The herein described construction also admits of making a thinneror lighter bottom on the pad, which is Very desirable in light work; andas it is also much easier to screw the terrets and pad screws in placewhen the nuts are right side up, the advantages of my improvedconstruction will be obvious.

The bottom A, of the coach pad is preferably made of leather, but feltor other material may be used that admits of the same treatment andprocess of manufacture. The socket B consists of four pieces of leather,g, h,

2', 70, as shown in Figs. 8, 9, 10 and 11, which are pasted together andpressed in the die,

as shown in Fig. 7. In the pieces 9 and h are formed openings r and rwhich fit over corresponding projections O, in the lower die 0; saidprojections being similarly shaped like the nut boxes and help to formthe cavities in the, bottom which fit over said nut boxes on the socketB. By this process I do 5 away with the labor of spoke-shaving andhand-labor of shaping the bottom and sides of the pad and the outerwrapper 70, covering the edges of the several pieces, makes a smooth,solid surface for the patent leather 10o covering 0, thereby avoidingthe stretching and straining of the same heretofore necessary as I presssaid patent leather covering in the diewith the bottom, and am thusenabled to use a cheaper article and at the same time to get a better orat least equally as good a result, as by the use of first quality patentleather, in the old way. Moreover the making of my improved coach paddoes not need skilled workmen, and it saves the handling of the wholecoach pad over and over again which has to be done by the old process ofpasting the severalpieces on the socket thus tarnishing and defacing theluster of the patent leather and mountings.

From the foregoing the considerable saving resulting from my process inmanufacturing coach pads will be understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,and Wish tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a coach pad, the combination of nut boxes interposed between thebottom and socket of said pad; springs riveted to said nut boxes; ribsor flanges on said nut boxes, and apertures in the latter adapted toreceive the tube end of a nut, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a coach pad, the combination of nut boxes, interposed between thebottom and socket of said pad, as described, apertures e, in said nutboxes; ribs or flanges d, which extend longitudinally upon said nutboxes upon opposite sides of said apertures, and rivets 0', cast uponsaid nut boxes, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this6th day of December, 1894.

NOBLE TEAS.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, LOUISE BROWNE.

